Veronica M. White has held leadership roles in the public, non-profit and private sectors. She has served as Commissioner of New York City Parks & Recreation, COO of the New York City Partnership, and CEO of the New York City Housing Partnership, overseeing capital budgets ranging from $100 million to $1 billion. She currently leads Technology Services & Solutions for Bloomberg L.P., a global leader in delivering trusted data, news, and insights across the financial ecosystem to bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to the markets. She is an expert in operations, crisis management, environmental regulation, housing, and management of technology-focused teams.
The Technology Services & Solutions division includes Enterprise Technology, responsible for the connectivity and integration of client systems with Bloomberg products such as trading, execution, risk, and compliance systems. The division also includes Product Oversight, responsible for ensuring customers utilize Bloomberg solutions and data within the confines of licensing terms. With 300 direct staff and 210 engineers, this department focuses on innovative technology solutions and governance.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ms. White led Bloomberg’s Return to Office team for 18 months across 167 global offices and 24,000 employees. Under direction of the Company’s Management Committee, she collaborated across internal divisions (Legal, HR, Engineering, Facilities, Security Operations, Communications), and with external epidemiology and architecture advisors to implement on-site testing, vaccinations, and best-in-class health and safety enhancements. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to Tom Secunda, co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.
Ms. White served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, managing over 3,700 employees, an annual operating budget of $380 million and an annual capital budget of approximately $1 billion allocated to develop and maintain more than 29,000 acres of land, including 1,700 parks, 14 miles of beaches, and 500 community gardens. As Parks Commissioner, Ms. White led the Bloomberg Administration’s effort to re-open all NYC beaches following Hurricane Sandy. Ms. White also managed the teams creating and operating the NYC Parks sustainability initiatives, the City’s athletic fields, playgrounds, public pools, recreation and nature centers, golf courses, monuments, historic house museums and free public programs and services provided in coordination with local elected officials, community members, and non-profit partners.
Ms. White held New York City government leadership roles spanning private-public partnerships, business community engagement, anti-poverty initiatives and media and government relations. Ms. White served as founding Executive Director of the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) established by Mayor Bloomberg to design, implement and evaluate innovative ways to reduce poverty in the City. CEO launched 50 programs, raised $130 million in philanthropic grants to complement public funding, developed an alternative to the federal poverty measure, and received a federal grant from the Obama Administration to replicate CEO’s anti-poverty programs in New York and across the United States. This required collaboration with 20 City agencies and over 100 non-profit organizations, as well as managing a $100 million annual public-private Innovation Fund. Under Ms. White’s leadership, CEO won several prestigious awards, including the Citizens Budget Commission’s Prize for Public Service Innovation and Harvard University Kennedy School’s Ash Center’s Award for Democratic Governance Innovations in American Government.
Ms. White served as Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Deputy Commissioner of Planning, Policy, and Intergovernmental Affairs at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Ms. White’s executive positions in the non-profit sector include COO of the New York City Partnership and President and CEO of the New York City Housing Partnership. Ms. White also worked as a consultant in a private business she established specializing in business planning and management of non-profits, real estate development and environmental issues, and public-private partnerships. She practiced law at Brown & Wood and Sidley & Austin.
Ms. White serves on the boards of the Natural Areas Conservancy and the Citizens Budget Commission. As Parks Commissioner, Ms. White served ex officio on many nonprofit boards including the Central Park Conservancy, the American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Previously, Ms. White served on the boards of the Taconic Foundation, the Trust for Public Land Advisory Council, and the Citizens Housing & Planning Council.
Ms. White is admitted to the bar of the State of New York and the federal courts for the Southern and Eastern districts of New York.
Ms. White received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.